²⁶Into great waters have they brought thee, Those rowing thee, The east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas. ²⁷Thy wealth and thy remnants, Thy merchandise, thy mariners, And thy pilots, strengtheners of thy breach, And the traders of thy merchandise, And all thy men of war, who are in thee, And in all thine assembly that is in thy midst, Fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy fall, ²⁸At the voice of the cry of thy pilots shake do the suburbs. ²⁹And come down from their ships have all handling an oar, Mariners, all the pilots of the sea, on the land they stand, ³⁰And have sounded for thee with their voice, And cry bitterly, and cause dust to go up on their heads, In ashes they do roll themselves. ³¹And they have made for thee baldness, And they have girded on sackcloth, And they have wept for thee, In bitterness of soul—a bitter mourning. ³²And lifted up for thee have their sons a lamentation, And they have lamented over thee, who is as Tyre? As the cut-off one in the midst of the sea? ³³With the outgoing of thy remnants from the seas, Thou hast filled many peoples, With the abundance of thy riches, and thy merchandise, Thou hast made rich things of earth. ³⁴The time of thy being broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, Thy merchandise and all thy assembly in thy midst have fallen. ³⁵All inhabitants of the isles have been astonished at thee, And their kings have been sore afraid, They have been troubled in countenance. ³⁶Merchants among the peoples have shrieked for thee, Wastes thou hast been, and thou art not—to the age!’

Chapter 28

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